News from County Executive Rob Astorino’s office on a town hall meeting in Somers: As part of an ongoing effort to reach out to Westchester residents and listen to what is on their minds, County Executive Rob Astorino will host his next “Ask Astorino” town hall meeting on Wednesday, February… Read More →

Republicans on the Westchester Board of Legislators are calling on the board’s majority Democrats and the county executive to work out a compromise in the fight over family costs in the subsidized child care program that has the two sides in court. The administration of County Executive Rob Astorino sought… Read More →

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino’s fiscal 2012 budget proposal trims hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars in spending, while eliminating county support for scores of popular endeavors, the gamut from festivals to nature programs. He discusses his plans in a LIVE Editorial Spotlight interview 1:30 p.m. Tuesday on LoHud.com…. Read More →

Good afternoon. Here’s a curated look at the weekend’s opinion conent: Sunday, Nov. 20 We carried a pair of editorials on budgets proposed by the leaders of county governments in Westchester and Rockland counties. Tough choices loom on both sides of the Hudson as services and programs are slated to… Read More →

Here’s a glance at today’s opinion content: Astorino and the election: Editorial In our Westchester-Putnam edition, we carried an editorial that analyzed the still-unclear results of Tuesday’s election. The Democratic “supermajority” on Westchester County Board of Legislators is in play and we look at the implications for Republican County Executive… Read More →

Wednesday’s headline in Westchester will doubtless key in on whether the Democrats retained their “super majority” in the Board of Legislators. What else would it be, given the endless attention County Executive Rob Astorino showered on the political math? The voters weren’t nearly as enthused. Astorino, the first-term Republican, has… Read More →

Adolfo Carrion, a former Bronx Borough President who now serves as director of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, talked Thursday with the Editorial Board about Westchester County’s affordable housing settlement. Here’s a clip of the interview: To watch the session in its entirety, go to lohud.com/editorialspotlight

Adolfo Carrion, the federal Housing and Urban Development Department’s regional director for New York and New Jersey, appears in an Editorial Spotlight interview at 11 a.m. today to answer your questions and our editors’ about the fair-housing settlement in Westchester. To watch live, go to http://LoHud.com/editorialspotlight. To ask a question,... Read More →

Here’s a look at opinion content published over the weekend in The Journal News: Saturday, Sept. 24 Troy Davis: Commentary Alice T. Crowe, a Nyack attorney and playwright, offers a Community View on Troy Davis, the African-American man put to death last week in Georgia for the 1989 murder of… Read More →

Good Monday morning. Here’s a selection of opinion content published over the weekend and today: Saturday, Sept. 17 United Water: Community View Bert Dahm, a West Nyack resident and member of the West Nyack Hamlet Revitalization Committee, replies to a Sept. 10 Community View on United Water’s response to Irene…. Read More →